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Terms and Names Units 1 - 5

Terms and Names Units 1 - 5. created by a group of investors to establish the Jamestown colony in 1607. Virginia Company. Native American leader of the group by the same name who had uneasy peace with the settlers in Jamestown. Powhatan.

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Terms and Names Units 1 - 5

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  1. Terms and NamesUnits 1 - 5

  2. created by a group of investors to establish the Jamestown colony in 1607

  3. Virginia Company

  4. Native American leader of the group by the same name who had uneasy peace with the settlers in Jamestown

  5. Powhatan

  6. legislature created in Jamestown in 1619, first form of representative government in North America

  7. House of Burgesses

  8. uprising in 1676 against the royal governor led by Nathaniel Bacon

  9. Bacon’s Rebellion

  10. war, beginning in 1675, between English colonists and Native American’s led by Metacom

  11. King Philip’s War

  12. the prosecution and execution of 20 men and women for witchcraft in Massachusetts in 1692

  13. Salem Witch Trials

  14. colony established by the Dutch in what is present-day New York City

  15. New Amsterdam

  16. economic theory that a country should acquire as much gold and silver as possible by exporting more than it imports (sell more stuff than buy)

  17. Mercantilism

  18. one leg of the triangular trade, also refers to the forced transport of slaves from Africa to America

  19. Middle Passage

  20. colonial inventor, printer, writer, and statesman; contributed to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution

  21. Benjamin Franklin

  22. religious revival in the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s, included preachers Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield

  23. The Great Awakening

  24. ended the French and Indian War, France gave up all land in North America

  25. Treaty of Paris (1763)

  26. order by the British king that closed the region west of the Appalachian Mountains to all settlement by colonists

  27. Proclamation of 1763

  28. groups that organized with the purpose of encouraging the boycott of British goods, responsible for the Boston Tea Party

  29. Sons and Daughters of Liberty

  30. groups who worked to coordinate resistance to the British throughout the colonies, sent letters from city to city

  31. Committees of Correspondence

  32. pamphlet written by Thomas Paine and published in January 1776, which called for American independence from Britain

  33. Common Sense

  34. ended the Revolutionary War, Britain acknowledged American independence

  35. Treaty of Paris (1783)

  36. plan that established, in 1781, a limited national government in the US, later replaced by the Constitution

  37. Articles of Confederation

  38. an uprising against taxes in Massachusetts in 1786 and 1787

  39. Shays’ Rebellion

  40. supporters of the Constitution during the debate over its ratification, favored a strong national government, included Alexander Hamilton and James Madison

  41. Federalists

  42. opponents of the Constitution during the debate over ratification, opposed the concepts of a strong national government, included Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, and James Monroe,

  43. Anti-Federalists

  44. document written 1787 that determined how western territories could become states, also served as a constitution for the region

  45. Northwest Ordinance

  46. purchase by the US of the Louisiana Territory from France in 1803

  47. Louisiana Purchase

  48. declaration by President Monroe in 1823 that the US would oppose efforts by any outside power to control a nation in the Western Hemisphere

  49. Monroe Doctrine

  50. effort, beginning in Britain in the late 1700s, to increase production by using machines powered by sources other than humans or animals, textile industry first to be affected

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